Here's How Much It Would Cost to Live on the Moon for a Year

We've been to the money. We've played golf on it. We might go back for a visit someday. But what would it take to set up a base on live the lunar life rather than just making a quick stop-off? The great YouTube channel Wendover Productions breaks down how much we'd need to send four astronauts there for a year. It'd cost a lot.

Wendover estimates $36 billion in total. As the video notes, these are back-of-the-envelope estimates that don't account for every specific detail of a trip to the Moon, but they're pretty well thought out—and something to keep in mind as SpaceX works out the details of colonizing Mars.